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In: Sociaal bestek: tijdschrift voor werk, inkomen en zorg, Band 78, Heft 5, S. 44-45
ISSN: 2468-1377
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In: Sociaal bestek: tijdschrift voor werk, inkomen en zorg, Band 78, Heft 5, S. 44-45
ISSN: 2468-1377
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 3-22
ISSN: 1741-2730
How to demarcate the political units within which democracy will be practiced? Although recent years have witnessed a steadily increasing academic interest in this question concerning the boundary problem in democratic theory, social contract theory's potential for solving it has largely been ignored. In fact, contract views are premised on the assumption of a given people and so presuppose what requires legitimization: the existence of a demarcated group of individuals materializing, as it were, from nowhere and whose members agree among themselves to establish a political order. In order to fill this gap in social contract theory, a distinction is made between three kinds of contract views: Lockean political voluntarism, contractarianism, and contractualism. Each of these views can be (re)interpreted in such a way that it offers a democratic solution to the boundary problem. Ultimately, however, a Rawlsian interpretation of the contractualist solution is defended.
In: Politics, philosophy & economics: ppe, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 391-428
ISSN: 1741-3060
This article addresses the problem of 'the legitimacy of the people', that is, what constitutes the legitimate demarcation of the political units within which democracy is practiced? It is commonplace among philosophers to argue that this problem cannot be solved by appeal to democratic procedure because every attempt to do so results in an infinite regress. Based on a social contract theoretical analysis of the problem, this view is rejected. Although contract theorists have ignored the problem of the legitimacy of the people, this article nevertheless argues for one specific, and currently dominant, type of contract view – 'contractarianism' – that it contains the conceptual tools to solve it. In a contractarian view, the people are understood as a cooperative venture for mutual advantage and accordingly consist of only those individuals for whom it is mutually beneficial to bind themselves to one another. It is argued that contractarianism offers a procedurally democratic solution to the problem of the legitimacy of the people that does not cause an infinite regress. Furthermore, this article refutes a classic criticism of contractarianism's account of moral standing. Finally, the article demonstrates contractarianism's practical implications for one specific articulation of the problem of the legitimacy of the people, namely, immigration.
In: Jeugd en co: voor professionals in de jeugdsector. Kennis, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 52-54
ISSN: 1876-6099
In: Time & society, Band 16, Heft 2-3, S. 409-410
ISSN: 1461-7463
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 742-743
ISSN: 1099-1328
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 15, Heft 5, S. 664-665
ISSN: 1099-1328
In: Business and Society Review, Band 104, Heft 4, S. 407-415
ISSN: 1467-8594
In: Netherlands international law review: NILR ; international law - conflict of laws, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 557
ISSN: 1741-6191
In: Netherlands international law review: NILR ; international law - conflict of laws, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 555
ISSN: 1741-6191
In: Netherlands international law review: NILR ; international law - conflict of laws, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 558
ISSN: 1741-6191
In: Netherlands international law review: NILR ; international law - conflict of laws, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 361
ISSN: 1741-6191